Week of January 10, 2016

1. Please remember to check your child’s folder daily and send back all forms that must be completed the next school day.

2. Our next book order will be home next week! You can always place an order with our online code, which is HHM73.

3. Attendance and arriving to school on time is imperative. Attending school regularly is important to ensuring children develop a strong foundation for subsequent learning. Just a reminder that our school day begins at 8:00 am, and children are dismissed at 2:10 pm

4. Please remember we have snack every day in the afternoon. Please provide a healthy snack for your child in a labeled bag.

5. I am still missing a change of clothes for some students. Please send in a change of clothes in a zip lock bag labeled with your child’s name as soon as possible.

6. Please return signed Report Cards as soon as possible.

7. Food Allergies: If your child has a food allergy, please send in a current picture and write the kind of allergy on the back. For your child’s safety, it is of the utmost importance that this information is kept up-to-date in the cafeteria. Thank you!

Phonics/Phonemic Awareness: Letter/sound: Uu; Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport. The children will continue to work on Rhyme Recognition & Production, Syllable Segmenting & Counting, and Phoneme Isolation for initial and final sounds.The students are working on blending and segmenting unknown sounds in words they hear in the story.

Math: Counting and Numbers 0 to 10: Fewer than- reviewing one more and understand and show the meaning of less and fewer

Social Studies: We are starting Unit 2: Self and Others; Ways to Say Hello

Science: What makes a shadow? Investigate and describe darker shadows

Reminders:

January 14th: Our trip to Lincoln Center to see the Itty Bitties!

January 18th: NO SCHOOL in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day